Press releases in 2004

Amnesty International today (Thursday April 1st 2004) welcomed St Johnstone football club taking a strong stand against racism in football and called on fans across Scotland to encourage their local...

Amnesty International UK Media Director Lesley Warner said: “Independent trade unions struggle to survive in a climate in which the authorities are stifling their activities by curtailing their...

Amnesty International said: “The latest evidence of torture and ill-treatment emerging from Abu Ghraib prison will exacerbate an already fragile situation. The prison was notorious under Saddam...

Amnesty International today (30 April 2004) reiterated its fears for the safety of trade unionists in Colombia, following the 20 April shooting by unidentified gunmen of Gabriel Remolina, the...

The report, Libya: Time to make human rights a reality , lays out the findings of the Amnesty International’s recent visit to Libya in February 2004, the human rights organisation’s first such...

The Commission failed to adopt draft resolutions on China, Chechnya, Zimbabwe and the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, repeatedly using the “no action” procedure to prevent discussion of resolutions...

Amnesty International criticised the new proceedings as a replay of the original trial, designed to uphold the original verdict. Amnesty International delegates observed several sessions of the...

Amnesty International said: “Indiscriminate attacks have devastating effects and reveal a complete disregard for the most fundamental human right - the right to life. This became tragically clear...

“The US government has offered a vision of a world in which arbitrary unchallengeable detentions, potentially for life, are acceptable. “The Supreme Court must reject this vision and extract the...

Following several years’ research in this area by an expert Sub-Commission at the UN, and further discussion at the UN over the last few weeks, this formal request was made by the UK government on...